My snagging list was 8 pages long. My property wasn’t even finished when i moved in. My front door didn’t even lock! Nor did the communal door. My oven wasn’t even wired in. My windows weren’t completed and the locks were broken. I had stains on my carpet, leaking sink, the house needed a whole re-paint…the list goes on! We’ve now found mould in the hallway.

Seriously think twice before you purchase a property from TW. I have nothing but stress since moving in. I wish i could turn back time, because i would have never bought this place!

On the Bank Holiday weekend I went around to all my Neighbours and asked if they wanted to sign a petition outlining the problems we had encountered, those with backbones signed it and I place it in my van window along with a big sign saying ‘ DON’T BUY WIMPEY’ then parked it outside the show house. Consequently 1030 Saturday morning all has broke loose, sales asisstants knocking on my door yelling abuse, managers visting and even the police, well kInd of PCO.

Tuesday 830 am, the Managing Director rang to say he was at my house. I asked him to come back the next day and he did first thing, sorted all my problems out so quickly. He thought my actions were a bit extreme, I agreed, but toldhim that’s what I had to do to get him sat in my kitchen at 830 sorting out the problems.

Wimpeys don’t like bad press as it is no good for their Dividends, some times the man in the street has to stand up and be counted and in this case it worked great for me!

My wife and I moved into a taylor wimpey house in december 2009.
We bought it off plan as it was cheaper that way. BIG mistake! The place had around 80 different snags, some small, some big, but ALL due to poor workmanship. The place was painted by a three year old painter(apologies to three year olds), and the plumbing/grouting/tiling/you name it / by a spotty 16 year old by the looks of the finish! Now nearly 9 months later we are still waiting for work to be finished. The living room carpet has to be replaced due to rain seeping into the gap between the balcony and house, this also ruined our tv stand and the grand- daughters dolls house when mould formed underneath as it was sat on this carpet,( for which they will compensate us £149.99 for 2 items that cost £215 new, so where did they get that figure from. let alone the 99p figure?) we were told by the works foreman that the mastic in that gap “serves no purpose”, when we asked him about the gap not being sealed, and told that all the work done only had to be carried out to a minimum standard. What standard? Presumably the same standards they live by(scruffy/crap drivers/lazy/ unfit/ lairy/ 8 pints and a kebeb on saturday night sort of standard?). We are going to try to sell the place as I hate it for the stress it has caused us, and for the fact that we were LIED to when told that the houses opposite would be affodable hosing/part buy part rent/key worker houses, when in fact they are occupied by council house type people with too many kids/dogs/van drivers per house.
Why did we pay hard earned money to live here with these sort of people? BECAUSE WE WERE LIED TO.
Ultimately we have to keep this fairly quiet or nobody will buy it so we are stuck between a rock and a hard place, so to speak.
I just hope this stops people buying into the TW nightmare, if they are sensible enough to search these sites and actually take notice. I wish I had! Its crazy that I will trawl the internet for reviews on kettles etc, and the cheapest price but it never even crossed my mind to search for info on something that is the most expensive thing I will ever buy. I am still kicking myself on a daily basis.
It is a sad fact of the times we live in that this has happened to so many innocent, hard working people, like us. Surely there must be a way of improving the cowboy standards to a point that only genuine builders and tradesmen are allowed to build in this country? Or am I wrong in thinking this? I dont know for a fact but I’m pretty sure this wouldn’t happen in places such as Germany, Sweden etc. as they are very strict with this sort of thing in there own country.
Lets hope the future governments pass an amendment to this, and get rid of cowboy builders as they are spreading like a virus throughiout this once great country. APOLOGIES TO ALL THE GENUINE BUILDERS TO WHOM THIS DOES NOT APPLYTO ANY WAY!